baking on the brain

This Hallowe’en, inspired by this post on She Knows, I decided to make little edible brains.  I followed the original concept pretty closely – white chocolate brains filled with cake balls and a red glaze, changing up the cherry jam for a home-made raspberry coulis, and dying my cake grey for truly grey “grey matter.”

Grey cake:

 

Er, I left some frozen raspberries to thaw overnight to make the coulis, and woke up to find what looked like a massacre.  Kind of fitting for bloody brain construction:

Brains:

Blood:

Final products – the damaged ones were even better. This was my kind of project.

Other Hallowe’en sweet treats included owl cookies:

 

Stencilled cake:

Ghost meringues:

 

Sugar cookies: